... //www.facebook.com/public/Daniel-Rocco-Rusk>. Agency', we might speculate that Mr Rocco-Rusk is disseminating disinformation concerning the Kennedy assassination, for whatever reason. As Mr Rocco-Rusk himself put it (on FaceBook in December 2013): 'Honesty is not the job of the Central Intelligence Agency. Protecting our lives and serving our foreign policy is. ' On the other hand, Mr Rocco-Rusk's previous CIA affiliations may be totally unrelated and he may yet prove to be a valuable source of insight into the events surrounding Kennedy's death. ...

... US Army and Marine Corps, however, there were also the activities of US (and British, although we know very little about this) special forces under the direction of JSOC. JSOC had no time for any hearts and minds nonsense. It hunted down and captured or killed its targets, with those captured being interrogated to provide the intelligence for the next raid. JSOC operated its own prison in Iraq at Camp NAMA. According to Scahill, the CIA which 'had inflicted more than its share of dirty deeds on prisoners had become so shocked at the torture at NAMA that it withdrew its interrogators from the base in August 2003'. He quotes one former NAMA interrogator who ...

... Party.3 He traced the campaign to a major article on the front page of the Observer, the first of many press attacks on Militant. This was by Nora Beloff, sister of Max (a council member of Brian Crozier's ISC and also with the Committee for the Free World). During WW2 Nora Beloff had worked for Political Intelligence at the Foreign Office, and her attacks on the extreme left of the Labour Party had the backing of David Astor.4 Michael Crick drew on Beloff, Prentice, Julian Lewis and Haseler's accounts of the Prentice affair to penetratingly observe that Prentice blamed Militant for his troubles, but had started off his criticisms of Labour by saying they ...

... unit/domestic interaction in attributing contingency. This, I believe, is where Harvey's argument suffers from level-of-analysis confusion. Paul Todd Paul Todd was editor of the monthly Gulf Report at the Gulf Centre for Strategic Studies in London. He has been an occasional contributor to Lobster since 1999 and is co-author of Global Intelligence (London: Zed Books, 2003) and Spies, Lies and the War on Terror (London: Zed Books, 2009). ...

... run smoothly, particularly in the face of rising Soviet influence in Ethiopia, Somalia, Angola, and elsewhere in the late 20th century. In the 21st century, no nation – not even China – comes close to challenging the United States in power and influence. The US's strength lies in its power to bribe, the breadth of its intelligence agencies, its sophisticated public relations operations, and especially its military might. Consequently, it is the ambition of US businesses, using the military as a vehicle, to dominate Africa. AFRICOM The Pentagon's Africa Command (AFRICOM) describes itself as 'A full-spectrum combatant command......responsible for all U. ...

... see direction by the spooks: she sees an investigation derailing itself. The Germans couldn't find a link between the plane and the PFLP – How did they get the bomb on the plane? – and the British were reluctant to to investigate Heathrow, 1 This book arrived the day that Exaro published material showing (again) that the US intelligence people didn't believe the Libya-dunnit story. See <http://www.exaronews.com/articles/5166/lockerbie-us-intelligence-maintained- doubt-about-libya-s -role>. so both fell with enthusiasm on the Malta solution; and, she concedes, both sets of investigators ...

... <http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/ JFKrometsch.htm>. the NSA/GCHQ's global surveillance ambitions. The Home Affairs Committee asked to question the head of MI5; the Home Secretary, Teresa May, duly refused on the grounds that his appearance would 'duplicate' the existing oversight provided by the Intelligence and Security Committee. Thus the beauty of the ISC from the state's perspective: it provides the appearance of accountability and scrutiny while actually providing neither. Its members are appointed by the prime minister (advised by the state, of course). The Home Affairs Committee members are appointed by other MPs. The prime minister rejected the committee's ...

... Judge Stanley Spence, allowed PIIs to be invoked, thereby making it appear that the defendants were acting unlawfully and profiting from the export of fuses to an embargoed destination – Iraq. The PIIs were issued to prevent an officer of Special Branch, DS Wilkinson, from verifying that Paul Grecian had been acting with official backing in order to gather intelligence on Iraq. The Public Interest Immunity certificates were signed by Kenneth Baker and Peter Lilley, relying on an assessment by the prosecuting council that the documents in question were not relevant. Grecian was exonerated in 1995, at the Court of Appeal, 1 On which see <http://jancom.org/JANCOMHouseOfCards442.html> ...

... In Spies We Trust: the story of western intelligence Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones Oxford University Press, 2013, £20, h/b Bernard Porter Britain and America came quite late to the spying game, but by the late 20th century had come to dominate it. It is this, I suppose, that justifies the subtitle of this book, which scarcely mentions other Western intelligence agencies except in a chapter at the end discussing a possible EU alternative to the current Anglo-American axis. The main title must be meant ironically. The overwhelming impression left by the book is of massive untrustworthiness. It's true, as Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones points out, that 'an intelligence...

... Understanding Shadows The Corrupt Use of Intelligence Michael Quilligan Atlanta (GA): Clarity Press, 2013, $21.95 (USA), p/b The author is or was – it isn't clear which – one of the writers for Intelligence, the Paris-based fortnightly intelligence newsletter1 (and this has an introduction by Intelligence's founder/editor, Olivier Schmidt.) In the early years of Lobster we came across Intelligence in its first incarnation as a newsletter with summaries of stories and their sources. It was very good, though with much wider sources and more money than Lobster. In the late 1980s it went professional and became expensive; more importantly, it ...